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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] TTY: pty, release tty in all ptmx_open fail paths
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    On Wednesday 12 October 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote:
    > Mistakenly, commit 64ba3dc3143d (tty: never hold BTM while getting
    > tty_mutex) switched one fail path in ptmx_open to not free the newly
    > allocated tty.
    >
    > Fix that by jumping to the appropriate place. And rename the labels so
    > that it's clear what is going on there.
    >
    > Introduced-in: v2.6.36-rc2
    > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
    > Cc: stable@kernel.org
    > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
    > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

    Ok, I have checked that this patch returns the code into the state
    before my broken patch, that looks good.

    I think I made the same mistake trying to understand your patch
    that I made originally when I introduced the bug, which was to
    confuse the lifetime of the pty master with the lifetime of the
    slave device, so I thought that tty_release should not be called
    if we never called ptm_driver->ops->open(), but that's actually
    a different device.

    Arnd


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